Awards/Honors

Distinguished Dissertation Award in Humanities and Social Sciences, The College of William and Mary, "The Life and Legacy of Marie Couvent: Property Ownership, Social Networks, and the Making of a Free People of Color Community in New Orleans.". 2015. Libby Neidenbach, PhD, American Studies.

Conference Presentations

"Boys in Livery: Picturing Slavery in English and Colonial American Portraiture," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting. March 2016. Janine Yorimoto Boldt, PhD, American Studies.

"The Globalization of U.S. Grand Strategy: How U.S. Officials Positioned the United States at the Center of a Multipolar World after World War II," Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA. June 25-27, 2015. Edward Hunt, PhD, American Studies.

Three Faces, Three Diasporic Places: Locating Refractions of Africa and the Americas in Atlanta’s Cult of Saint Martin De Porres, Locating and Connecting Latin America and the African Diaspora Conference, University of North Carolina Charlotte. May 2015. James Padilioni, Jr., PhD, American Studies.

Throwing Like A Girl: Embodiment and Dis/Ability in Feminist Theory, Works in Progress Regional Conference on Feminist Scholarship, Norfolk, Va. March 2015. Jan Huebenthal, PhD, American Studies.

"Reconstructing Citizenship: Banished Bodies and the Global South," at the Southern American Studies Association Biennial Conference in Atlanta, GA. February 2015. Jessica Cowing, PhD, American Studies.

""Looking for Mr. Right or Mr. Right Now, Never Stop Talking' - HIV, Disability Studies, and Queer Health in Time of 'Equality'" at the American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting 2015 in Toronto, Canada. Jan Huebenthal, PhD, American Studies.

I Got Country Roots: Race, Identity and Black Country Singers in the 1970s, the American Studies Association Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA. November 2014. Matt Anthony, PhD, American Studies.

When Bodies Are Weapons – The Super Bowl, Violence, and the 'Masculine Mystique,' Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association 25th Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD. November 2014. Jan Huebenthal, PhD, American Studies.

From Farm to Refinery: Pulling Wealth from the Land in Twentieth-Century West Texas, Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Los Angeles, CA. November 2014. Sarah Stanford-McIntyre, PhD, American Studies.

The Black Body Mortified but Incorruptible: The Radical Mysticism of St. Martín de Porres, Ways of Knowing Graduate Conference on Religion, Harvard Divinity School. October 2014. James Padilioni, Jr., PhD, American Studies.

From this lonely part of the world: Materializing William Byrd II's Transatlantic Social Network, 2014 SECAC Annual Meeting, Sarasota, FL. October 2014. Janine Yorimoto Boldt, PhD, American Studies.

'Embracing What has Always Been ours to Begin With': Banjos, Bluegrass, and Southern Blackness, 1619: The Making of America Conference, Norfolk State University. September 2014. James Padilioni, Jr., PhD, American Studies.

The Waiting Man: The Black and White Masculinities of Male Enslaved Domestics in Virginia, 1750-1799 at the SHEAR Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. July 2014. Cathy Hellier, PhD, American Studies.

Raising Consumers / Selling Producers: Images of Children in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Advertising and Ephemera, Annual MAPACA (Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Conference), Atlantic City, New Jersey. November 2013. Meghan Bryant, PhD, American Studies.

'Trouble With My Adding' - The Innumeracy of Clint Eastwood." Film & History Conference: Making Movie$, Madison, WI. November 2013. Frank Fucile, PhD, American Studies.

Sex, Money, and Movement: Challenging Traditional Notions of the Female Tramp in Johnny Guitar and The Ballad of Little Jo, Film & History Conference: Making Movie$, Madison, WI. November 2013. Stephanie Maguire, PhD, American Studies.

'I don't think I have any heroes': Hawkeye Pierce as Hard-Boiled Detective, South Atlantic MLA Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. November 2013. David Camak Pratt, PhD, American Studies.

'We Younger Negro Artists who Create': Harlem's Production of the Aesthetic of Pride, The First International Conference on Arts and Humanities: Bridges Across Culture, Washington & Jefferson College and the Umbra Institute, Perugia, Italy. June 2013. James Padilioni, Jr., PhD, American Studies.

'She's Got her Own': The Political Economy of Billie Holiday, Association for Private Enterprise Education Conference. 2013. James Padilioni, Jr., PhD, American Studies.

"Tractor in a Rice Paddy?: Performing American Exceptionalism at the Virginia State Fair," presented at Chesapeake American Studies Association Annual Meeting, American University, Washington, D.C. Spring 2012. Sarah Stanford-McIntyre, PhD, American Studies.

"'Inhabitants of Saint-Domingue, today refugee in this place': Atlantic Networks and the Contours of Migration among Free Women of Color during the Haitian Revolution" presented at Race, Gender, and Sexualities in the Atlantic Conference, Carolina Lowcountry in the Atlantic World Program, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. March 9-11, 2012. Elizabeth Neidenbach, PhD, American Studies.

"The Big Bad Wolf: The Glorification of Male Sexual Aggression in Popular Culture during WWII" presented at 2012 Southwest /Texas Popular & American Culture Associations Regional Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico. February 8-11, 2012. Michaele Smith, PhD, American Studies.

"Race and Trans-Nationalism in German America: The 'Horror on the Rhine Mass Meeting,'" 17th Annual Focus on German Studies Conference, Max Kade German Cultural Center, Cincinnati, OH. October 1, 2012. Christian Wilbers, PhD, American Studies.

"'I'm Doin' It For Defense': Obligation and Sexual Violence in the United States During WWII" presented at 2012 Southern Association for Women Historians Conference, Fort Worth, Texas. June 6-9, 2012. Michaele Smith, PhD, American Studies.

Race and TransNationalism in German America: The 'Horror on the Rhine Mass Meeting,' 17th Annual Focus on German Studies Conference of the Max Kade German Cultural Center, Cincinnati, OH. October 2012. Christian Wilbers, PhD, American Studies.

The X-ray Lady: Look Through Me Please, Northeast Popular Culture/ American Culture Association, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY. October 2012. Lita Tirak, PhD, American Studies.

'The Eyes of Texas are Upon You' Walker Texas Ranger and the Revisionist Western, Film and History Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI. September 2012. Sarah Stanford-McIntyre, PhD, American Studies.

"Between Third Reich and American Way: Transatlantic Migration and the Politics of Belonging, 1920-1945" presented at the Heidelberg Spring Academy, Heidelberg, Germany. March 11, 2011. Christian Wilbers, PhD, American Studies.

Panel Organizer, "Pleasure in the Land: Marking the Spatial Bounderies of the "Good Life" in 20th Century American," Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Los Angeles, CA. November 2014. Sarah Stanford-McIntyre, PhD, American Studies.

Co-curator, "Glen Close: A Life in Costume," Muscarelle Museum of Art. September 2013-January 2014. Meghan Bryant, PhD, American Studies.